#353

One of these films is really good

it’s not The Game Plan

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#354

I am not making any comment on the substance of the film. I reckon the Devil Wears Prada is a great example of the genre, TBH and I thoroughly enjoyed Meet the Parents at the time.

But these posters are so lazy. BOLD ARIALNARROW ARIAL BUT IN RED or whatever

#355

it’s the Lizzie Maguire movie

#356
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#357

Someone I know did this with budget supermarket SCarY HoUsE horror movies

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#358

Nice. It’s similar Matthew McConaughey’s wilderness rom-com years when he forgot how to stand upright…

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#359

FTFY

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#360

Similar to re-titlings (a staple of the original wave of video nasties also) is re-badging films from serious psychological thrillers to scholcky genre fare via a cover change. These often end up in the same supermarket bargain bins as ^those haunted house flicks.

One of my faves from recent years, Absentia. Original cover - wow, look at all those film festival appearances. Must be a serious film…

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Right, it’s now in Poundland - no one is going to sit through 90s minutes of soul searching about a fucking tunnel. Let’s ramp this shit up a bit…

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Another one I’ve banged on about on here, Cheap Thrills. Original cover - ooh, that looks upsetting…

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Supermarket time? Fancy watching a knock about comedy this evening? Wait a second - why has this got an incredibly bleak downbeat ending…

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Risen From The Dead - The Rolling Horror Thread 2019
#361

'A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go BRRRRRRRAAAAAWWWWRWRRRMRMRMMRMRMMMMM!!!

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#362

Saw that this week, absolutely brilliant film with an aesthetic that seemed almost entirely idiosyncratic.

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#363

It reminds me of the displays of books in Waterstones or something. All the books by men have serious covers, while all the books by women are super bright and colourful and girly - like you might see an Ali Smith book designed like a throwaway romance (not that there’s anything wrong with that, just misleading). Just makes me instinctively want to dismiss those books even though I’m sure plenty of them would appeal to me. Really hard to see past the surface though when there’s so many other options out there to consider …

#364

Feels like there should be a moral in this somewhere :thinking:

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#365

Happy to see Vox Lux has been picked up by Curzon in the UK, hopefully won’t take too long to come out here

#366

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Just watched the documentary Free Solo- oh so deserving of its 98% RT score. Free-climber Alex Honnold tackles what looks like, to the untrained eye, a 3000ft sheer drop in Yosemite without a bloody safety rope. The climbing footage is unbelievably tense, but it’s Alex himself who makes the film- he’s a winning of combination of Sherlock Holmes and Rain Man- honestly, I don’t think I’ve laughed so much in the cinema all year. However, that may be because I watch to many dark movies. Can’t recommend it enough.

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#367

An incredible film, really hope I can start rock climbing next year. The story of him getting kidnapped in Kyrgyzstan was nuts.

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#368

Mary Poppins Returns - rather slight and obviously the songs aren’t as good as A Spoonful of Sugar or Supercalifragilistic… but it won me over nevertheless. From a purely personal perspective the Ben Whishaw song A Conversation was rather moving.

#369

Watched Bird Box. Quite enjoyed it actually, its better than the 2 star reviews I’ve seen

#370

Is the Headless Woman any good?

#372

I saw it a few years ago and felt like it could have been a good short film but not a feature. I think if I watched it again I might feel differently though…

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#373

I really didn’t like it at the time

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